News and Events

Media General Saves Ink Costs with Ink-it

Thu, 4 Jun 2009 15:14:41 -0400

Polkadots Software is pleased to count Media General among its over 130 installations. Released last year, Ink-it has been extremely successful in helping newspapers save money on inks while providing better color reproduction. Mr. Jim Lillagore, Regional Production Director for North Carolina Community Newspapers, a Media General company, stated the following:

"What first attracted us to Ink-it was the price, it is available at a fraction of what the competition is asking for comparable products. Of course beyond the economical price is the functionality and fact that it is by far one of the easiest products we have ever had installed. A Polkadots' technician performed a remote installation and within 45 minutes everything was configured and running.”

Mr. Lillagore goes on to say, “Ink-it runs transparently on the RIP so our prepress operators don't have to change the way they work. In fact, if we didn't tell them, they wouldn't even know Ink-it was there. In the first month, Ink-it has saved 22% of our ink costs and we will save $12,000 within a year. Ink-it will pay for itself in less than three months!"

Polkadots, through its partnership with Southern Lithoplate, worked with Media General to install 25 Ink-it licenses. All of the installations were done remotely eliminating on-site costs as well as workflow disruptions.

INK-it is available for only $2995 USD. Contact Polkadots today (514) 595-6866 or online at http://www.polkadots.ca for a free trial. Polkadots is a PAGE Cooperative Platinum Supplier and a proud member of the Southern Lithoplate Strategic Alliance. At Polkadots we develop simply better solutions.

Trademarks
INK-it, PLATEflo, NEWSflo, ADflo and Rasterize-it are trademarks of Polkadots Software Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Polkadots Software Inc. makes no warranty and accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of information or particulars in this document.

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PRESSflo & INK-It Bring Immediate Cost Savings to your Pressroom

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:24:22 -0400

Polkadots Software Inc., the leading CtP production workflow developer specializing in workflow automation for newspaper and commercial printers, announces the immediate availability of PRESSflo – Automated Press Adjustments including INK-it – Ink Saving and Optimization. PRESSflo and INK-it have been specially priced for PAGE Members until July 31, 2008 with modules starting at $2995.

PRESSflo is a unique integration of technologies created to make any printing press run better. Using PRESSflo will guarantee better registration, reduced paper and ink waste and thanks to its easy point and click interface it will take less time and labor to get the job done. Some of the key features of PRESSflo include:
Web Growth Compensation for all Presses (Web Stretch adjustment)
• Easier and better registration handled automatically at the RIP
• Higher quality printing achieved immediately
CIP3 Ink Presetting
• CIP3 *.ppf files generated for presses equipped with digital consoles
• Created instantly from the same data used to make plates or film
Ink Key Presets for manual ink key lever presses
• Digital output to ink key reports for manual ink lever presses
• Digital output of ink key numbers on the bottom of the plate for simple ink setting
Registration Compensation (Digital Cocking and Shimming of film or plates prior to imaging)
• Automatically adjust image on plate or film to compensate for press or environmental conditions.
• Addresses individual press characteristics
Ink Optimization – immediately reduce your color ink by an average of 25% or more.
• Save money and make jobs easier to print at the same time
• Faster make ready times and reduced waste

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Eight More PAGE Sites Add Polkadots Workflow Solutions

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:10:35 -0400

Polkadots Software Inc., the leading CtP production workflow developer specializing in workflow automation for newspaper and commercial printers, announces that eight PAGE newspaper sites have recently adopted newspaper and production solutions.

The Galt (California) Herald, The Daily Globe (Worthington, MN) and the Imperial Valley Press (El Centro, CA) recently added NEWSflo as part of their conversions to CtP. NEWSflo is a fully automated workflow that includes a RIP, PreFlight, Page Pairing and Soft Proofing as standard features.

The Sun Journal in Lewiston, Maine installed 2 lines of NEWSflo for their conversion to CtP as well as INK-it. INK-it is the ink optimizing solution offering average color ink savings of 30%.

The Recorder in Greenfield, MA recently installed Customize-it. Completely modular in approach, Customize-it allows newspapers to build their own custom workflow solution, choosing only the features they want.

Other sites adding Polkadots solutions are: The Daily Hampshire Gazette, Northampton, MA (NEWSflo upgrade), the Missourian, Cape Girardeau, MO (INK-it), and the Blytheville Courier News in Blytheville, AR recently installed (NEWSflo) and will be installing (PRESSflo) at the end of July.

Polkadots benefits from global distribution channels and is always interested in finding new partners to work with. Polkadots commitment to the printing and publishing industry is evident by its active participation at industry events and its ongoing investment into research and development of automated workflow and prepress solutions. For more information about our company, our products or to become a business partner, please visit http://www.polkadots.ca/.

Polkadots Software is committed to developing and supplying cost effective, flexible, highly productive and automated database driven workflow solutions and productivity tools. We leverage our experience and knowledge in printing and prepress production to create solutions that do the jobs today’s printers and publishers require. At Polkadots we develop simply better solutions.

Trademarks
NEWSflo, INK-it, PLATEflo, PRESSflo, ADflo and Rasterize-it are trademarks of Polkadots Software Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Polkadots Software Inc. makes no warranty and accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of information or particulars in this document.

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Polkadots PreFlight & Autofix in Every flo

Wed, 7 May 2008 17:20:31 -0400

Polkadots Software Inc., the leading CtP production workflow developer specializing in workflow automation for newspaper and commercial printers, is pleased to announce that every version of NEWSflo, ADflo and PLATEflo will now incorporate its powerful, new preflight and auto-fix technology. NEWSflo, ADflo and PLATEflo will be available for the world to see at Drupa in Hall 9 Booth E61.

Gilles Duhamel, President of Polkadots Software states, "Our PreFlight & Autofix has been engineered to address the issues that face industry professionals every day. Polkadots’ PreFlight & AutoFix technology will process incoming PDF, PS and EPS files and fix problems, such as: Transparencies, Missing Fonts, 4 Color Black Text, RGB Images, Pantone Colors, Spot Colors, Hairlines, Composite JPEG, Bounding Box, OPI and more. Preflight reporting is good but when it comes to workflow automation, on the fly file fixing is better to maintain high productivity. Trueflight & PDF DataLock technologies go beyond the conventional preflight and deliver total file integrity throughout the workflow process." 
All workflow bundles now also include Pitstop Certified Status Check & Reporting of corrupted Fonts Errors, PS Errors, PDF Errors, Low Image resolution, and more…

Polkadots Software is committed to developing and supplying cost effective, flexible, highly productive and automated database driven workflow solutions. We leverage our experience and knowledge in printing and prepress production to create solutions that do the jobs today’s printers and publishers require. At Polkadots we develop simply better solutions.

Polkadots benefits from global distribution channels and is always interested in finding new partners to work with. Polkadots commitment to the printing and publishing industry is evident by its active participation at industry events and its ongoing investment into research and development of automated workflow and prepress solutions. For more information about our company, our products or to become a business partner, please visit http://www.polkadots.ca/.

Trademarks
PLATEflo, NEWSflo, ADflo and Rasterize-it are trademarks of Polkadots Software Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Polkadots Software Inc. makes no warranty and accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of information or particulars in this document.

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NEWSflo the Choice of More Newspapers

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:50:15 -0500

Polkadots Software Inc., the leading CtP production workflow developer specializing in newspaper workflow, is pleased to announce the recent installations of NEWSflo into several North American newspaper production sites.

Republican-American
The Republican American in Waterbury Connecticut has installed 2 full NEWSflo configurations. NEWSflo was chosen to replace the existing newspaper workflow. The decision to buy NEWSflo was made even easier since the cost for the full NEWSflo workflow was only a fraction of what it would have cost to update the existing system and NEWSflo provides more functionality.

Not only is NEWSflo managing the page processing, proofing to an existing HP1050 plotter as well as page pairing, but NEWSflo is also generating the inking data to feed a CGI Ink Preset system.

Spokesman Review
The Spokesman Review in Spokane, Washington has recently installed 2 full NEWSflo DUAL RIP configurations to drive their 2 high speed Krauze CtP, capable of making over 150 plates per hour each. NEWSflo replaces the existing Harlequin RIPs while NEWSflo’s View-it module is now being used instead of FirstProof. The Spokesman Review is leveraging NEWSflo’s flexibility by using the workflow for both newspaper production as well as commercial work while driving the existing SeeColor proofing solution.

NEWSflo also adds a new level of automation thanks to the integrated, web based publication planner. The Spokesman Review is using NEWSflo’s Planner module to read XML data supplied by Layout8000 and automatically create the required editions.

In addition to providing them with automation, the Spokesman Review is using NEWSflo to generate inking data to feed their DATA Engineering OY ink preset system with the intention of migrating to NEWSflo’s CIP3 output in the near future.

Dauphin Herald
The Dauphin Herald a weekly community newspaper located Dauphin, Manitoba has recently installed a full NEWSflo solution to automate their production environment. In addition to the Dauphin Herald the newspaper prints 10 other newspapers using NEWSflo and drives a Xerox 7750 from the workflow for proofing.

NEWSflo was acquired to compliment the new Screen CtP but is also able to drive the existing Panther imagesetter that is being kept, at least for the time being, for redundancy.

Transcontinental Printing - Qualimax
Transcontinental Qualimax in Gatineau, Quebec have recently installed a full NEWSflo to produce the daily “Le Droit d’Ottawa” as well as a dozen weekly newspapers. Mr. Bruno Beauparlant, supervisor at Transcontinental Qualimax states it the best, “We are extremely satisfied with NEWSflo! The entire solution is fast, efficient and trustworthy.”

Polkadots Software is committed to developing and supplying cost effective, flexible, highly productive and automated database driven workflow solutions. We leverage our experience and knowledge in printing and prepress production to create solutions that do the jobs today’s printers and publishers require. At Polkadots we develop unbeatable solutions: unbeatable performance and unbeatable value.

Polkadots benefits from global distribution channels and is always interested in finding new partners to work with. Polkadots commitment to the printing and publishing industry is evident by its active participation at industry events and its ongoing investment into research and development of automated workflow and prepress solutions. For more information about our company, our products or to become a business partner, please visit http://www.polkadots.ca/.

Trademarks
PLATEflo, NEWSflo and Rasterize-it are trademarks of Polkadots Software Inc. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. Polkadots Software Inc. makes no warranty and accepts no liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of information or particulars in this document.

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